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Re: PG 18 relnotes and RC1

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, corey.huinker@gmail.com
Date: 2025-08-30T20:02:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 02:42:47PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 01:51:23PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> AFAIK nobody has started on the "new features and enhancements" section.
> 
> Quick first attempt:
> 
> * btree skip scan
> * async i/o
> * oauth
> * virtual generated columns
> * OLD/NEW support in RETURNING
> * pg_upgrade improvements (stats, --jobs, --swap)
> * EXPLAIN enhancements
> * uuidv7
> * WITHOUT OVERLAPS/PERIOD

The 18beta1 announcement [0] has a good list, too.  *facepalm*  That one
seems to match mine pretty closely.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-beta-1-released-3070/

-- 
nathan

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  1. Add list of major features to the v18 release notes.

  2. add_commit_links.pl: error out if missing major version number

  3. doc PG 18 relnotes: Add migration note about tsearch

  4. Remove ts_locale.c's lowerstr()